Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1937 — Page 18
TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1937
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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GERMAN'’S VICTORY LAID TO FINE DRIVING
IN GREAT CAR
Here's Bernd Rosemeyer of Germany roaring past the finish line to win the 300-mile Vanderbilt Cup Race at Roosevelt Raceway.
Rex Mays Dra
ws Praise
For Landing Third Place
Rosemeyer Collects $20,00 Forced Out o
By United Presse WESTBURY, N. Y., hat or the Bavarian
July
6.-—There wasn't shorts of Ber
0 for Triumphs Nuvolari Is f Race Early.
a snicker at the alpine nd Rosemeyer today as the blond,
affable German stepped up to claim a check for $20,000—first prize for his daring victory in the second Vanderbilt Cup race.
Those oddities were forgotten yesterday by
jammed Roosevelt Raceway and saw the “Rhineland Rocket” dominate ah international field of the finest drivers and the speediest machines in the world. The victory was a tribute not only to his capable | driving, but 0 a magnificent piece of machinery and the precision of his pit crew, Rosemeyer, at times flashing down the straightaways from 150 to 180 miles an hour, finished the 36G0-mile grind—90 laps around the 3':i-mile | course—in three hours and 38 minutes for an average of 82.564 miles per hour. His 16-cylinder silver Auto Union roared across the finish line 51 seconds ahead of the Mercedes driven by Dick Seaman of England, who took the second largast check of $10,000. While Rosemeyer and Seaman | took the biggest cut of the swag, the able driving of Rex Mays, 24-year-old Californian from Glendale,
was one of the high spots of the |
race. Mays, in a reconditioned Alfa
Romeo called a Bowes Sealfast Spe- | Six | an |
cial, finished third, less minutes behind Seaman average of 80.144 m. p. h,
than with
Mays never hit more than 139 m. | on the straight stretches, some |
oh, 20 miles less than the powerful cars of his European opponents. Yet, his dogged driving on the seven turns, made up more than 17 miles of that handicap. He took third prize of | $5000 and an additional $2500 for | the first American driver to finish.
Nuvolari Forced Out
The race lost some of its spice when Tazio Nuvolari of Italy, last year’s winner, and Rudolf Caracctola of Germany, were forced out | by mechanical difficulties on the! 17th lap. Caracciola, captain of the | Mercedes team, had been a definite | threat, qualifying at the fastest | speed and holding the lead for Seven laps in the early running. Nuvolari got back in the race for | a Tew turns as relief driver for 2 Alfa Romeo teammate, Dr. Giuseppe | Farina, who wound up in fifth place | behind Ernest Delius, Auto Union partner, fourth money. Only 12 of the 30 starters finished. | Two were flagged down and 16 were | forced out with mechanical troubles, | including broken axles, transmissions, oil lines and motor failures. | In the money behind Farina were | Joel Thorne of New York; Russ | Snowberger, Wilmington, Del.; Wil- | bur Shaw of Indianapolis; Bill Cum- | mings, Indianapolis, Ardinger, Glassport, Pa. Th~ other 20 starters each ceive a $500 consolation award. Only three of the first drove American automobiles. They were Snowberger in a Burd Piston
Rosemeyer's | who took!
Ring, Cummings in a Moore Special | and Ardinger in a Rawhide Oil Spe- |
cial. For driving the first United States manufactured machine across | the finish line, Snowberger’s seventh place money of $1800 was increased | $5 to $4300. Pit Crew Efficient
Rosemeyer, who hit better than |
161 m. p. h. down the long straight- |
away in his practice runs, was ou of the lead on only 14 of the 90 laps yesterday. After overcoming Caracciola’s brief lead, Rosemeyer was out in front until the 38th lap
when he went to the pit and Sea- |
man jumped ahead. The remarkable efficiency of the |
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racing |
and Herbert | ves |
finishers |
710.000 who German's “grease monkeys’ was demonstrated when it required but 35 seconds to change the two back | tires, refuel the 400-horsepower monster, and give Rosemeyer a | drink of water. It was the only stop made by the silver No. 4 car all aft- | ernoon, and it required Rosemeyer but seven laps to overtake Seaman, a 24-year-old Cambridge University | graduate in his third year of cham- | pionship racing. | Seaman waged a bitter fight to | take the lead in the last stages of the race, and at one time had cut | Rosemeyer’s margin down to 99-10 | seconds. But a forced stop for fuel jon his next to last lap ended his | last hope of catching the rear-en- | ined Auto Union driver.
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No Surprise, Says Williams
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, July 6.—The race is | not always te the swift but as Mr. | Hugh Keough, the old sports phi-
| losopher, once wrote, that's the place
to look. The fastest automobile to survive | the strain in the 300-mile Vander-
| bilt Cup race at the Roosevelt Race-
way, an Auto Union, piloted by Bernd Rosemeyer of Germany, took first money yesterday, averaging 82564 miles an hour. Herr Rosemeyer had pushed his roaring rocket around the course in the qualifying trials at 84.370 miles an hour, the second fastest time made in the preliminary heats.
Williams
| This was bettered only by another
Nazi, Rudolp Caracciola in a Mercedes, who hit 85.850. But the German with the Italian name wasn't able to finish yesterday; his engine collapsed after 22 laps. So it was, then, that the spectacular speed test over the twisting, bending Long Island course went to the speediest car. The finish was close. Fifty-one seconds behind, | practically in the same straightaway, came Dick Seaman, the Englishman, | in another Mercedes. | When scant seconds separate the | finishing cars in a distance race the | competition is dramatically keen. Indeed, Seaman might have won the race if he hadit't been forced to | the pits on the last lap for an added | teacup of fuel. But close as the | finish was it was a walkover compared to the 500 at Indianapolis | where Wilbur Shaw nosed out Ralph | Hepburn by only 2.16 seconds. The Vanderbilt ran more or less true to form. A foreign car was figured to win and did win. Just
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Rosemeyer, shown here leading at an early stage of the race, averaged 82.461 M. P. H. to capture the classic from a fast field of 30.
the same the Americans made a
surprisingly good showing. Accounting for six positions in the first ten. Rex Mays of Glendale, Cal, driving a discarded Alfa | Romeo, came in third. No driver in the race took the bends with greater skill than the American star of the dirt tracks. It was only
on the straightaways that he was | surpassed and this was due mainly |
to the inferior speed of his car. Mays’ tion of the invaders. called him the best of the American drivers. , . he can't do with a car,” Nazi. “I'm just don’t have every day.” which he
said the
Driving a car was unfamiliar (he rati until last Friday). Shaw, the Indianapolis winner, did a creditable job in finishing eighth. Taken by and large in the nautical manner, the race was much
didn’t get possession of his Mase- |
driving won the admira- | Rosemeyer |
“There's nothing |
as well pleased I to race against him |
|
with |
more satisfactory than the 1936 inaugural, won by Tazio Nuvolari oi Italy in the slow speed of 65 miles an hour. The improved time was due to the improved track. With nine of the frivolous, useless bends { eliminated the drivers were able to
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Pipe This!
By NEA Service BROOKLYN, July 6.—The plumber heips the plumbers helper when Heinie. Manush, Brooklyn outfielder, drives home First Baseman Buddy Hassett. Hassett still holds his union card as a plumber's helper, while Manuch used to work at the trade at his native Tuscumbia, Ala.
| tional and
Rex Mays, the Coast comet, finished third, leading the American
entries.
Crowds Less Than Year Ago
NEW YORK, Ji July league Independence Day doubleheaders were attended by 11,235 fans less than last year when 209.000
| spectators paid to see the 16 base- |
ball games. The decrease was about equally divided between the leagues, with 5681 fewer 5554 in the American.
| Yesterday's attendance figures:
AMERICAN | Boston at New York | Chicago at Detroit
| Washington at Philadelphia
| St. | New York at Boston | Cincinnati
| |
Cleveland at St, Louis 5.000
105,446
+ 39,000 20.000 20,000 13,319
NATIONAL Louis at Chicago . thannen
at Pittsburgh Ceaatannas Philadelphia at Brooklyn
Total ........... “hes Grand total 195,765
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Here he is zooming along one of the straightaways.
| Argentine Runner On Ineligible List
By United Press DALLAS, Tex. July 6.—OfTicials of the Pan-American games start- | ing July 15 today sought the aid of the Argentine Ambassador to the United States in deciding eligibility of Jose Ribas, who was | declared ineligible shortly after he | arrived from Buenos Aires. ({ Ribas, 38, is Argentine champion marathon runner. He was declared ineligible by the Argentine | A. A. U. Ribas said he had no | idea why the ruling was made. The Argentine soccer team has been workin gout daily at Southern | Methodist University Stadium since | itg arrival Friday. WILSON TAKES BOUT STOCKTON, Cal, July 6.—Jackie Wilson, Pittsburgh featherweight,
To the victor belongs the spoils.
Times-Acme Photos. Mrs. Margaret Emerson, mother
of the cup’s donor, congratulates Rosemeyer on his triumph,
-
won the decision over Speedy Dado, Manila, in 10 rounds here yesterday. Wilson was credited with seven rounds. IS VICTOR Ind.
GEORGE W, WASHINGTON,
the 224 trot in three heats yesterday during the harness racing program at Farms Fairgrounds.
July 6.— | George W., a bay gelding owned by | J. O. Amos of Edinburg, captured | straight |
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